Mohamed Amrani (pictured) was accused of raping a woman in his Harefield office while still wearing his theatre scrubs

One of Britain’s top heart surgeons faces a possible retrial after jurors failed to decided whether he was guilty of raping a woman at work.

Yesterday, Mohamed Amrani was convicted of groping two women.

The Old Bailey heard Amrani thought no one would complain about his behaviour because of his international reputation as a consultant at Harefield Hospital in west London.

His wife Clare, who worked at the same hospital, silently wept in court as she heard that jurors could not reach a verdict on a charge of rape.

Amrani, internationally renowned for his specialist knowledge of keyhole surgery techniques, was suspended in 2015 when a woman made a formal complaint that the surgeon attacked her in his Harefield office while still wearing his theatre scrubs.

He claimed the rape allegation was 'pure fantasy'.

A jury deliberated for 20 hours to find him guilty of twice indecently assaulting a woman by groping her breasts through her clothes between 2003 and 2004.

Yesterday, he was also convicted of sexually assaulting another woman in 2014.

The court had heard how one victim complained to the hospital about being indecently assaulted and was allegedly told to 'just ignore him, he does it to everyone'.

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He told the court she came home and was 'very very upset', adding: 'My wife told me she had been groped and I understood that to be touching her over her clothing in a sexual manner.'

Amrani was acquitted of four counts of indecent assault, two of assault by penetration and one of sexual assault.

The consultant has performed a string of life-saving operations around the world and hit the headlines in 2007 when he performed the UK's first double heart valve replacement using keyhole surgery.

Mohamed Amrani was convicted of groping two women. The Old Bailey heard he thought no one would complain about his behaviour because of his international reputation as a consultant at Harefield Hospital in west London (pictured)